Shalbourne Gliding Blog

After a 3 week run of non-flyable days it was a great relief that we were able to get our bums back off the ground […]

How many winches were needed to launch this Ka-8? 4341  (click for larger image) Looks like this from the lower end of the launch 🙂 […]

Fairly modest turnout not particularly surprising as forecast had rain arriving in the afternoon.  Question was when.  Unusually (?) the Beeb and the Met disagreed.  […]

With a NE  wind blowing at around 10kts or so it was a good opportunity to see how well the on loan RAFGSA Skylaunch fitted […]

Note from Duty Instructor Richard: Fortunately all the recent rain didn’t waterlog the field bit cloudbase started rather low at 900 ‘. Luckily, we had […]

Been a bit tardy with the blog updates so here’s one posting covering the last three Wednesdays. 23rd October Cloudbase at around 1,000′ but big […]